TOPIC: Slow performance when using RC2

I'm writing a application that needs to pull in survey defintions and I was planning on using RC2 to do this. However calling functions like list_groups, list_questions, get_question_properties, each call takes almost exactly 1.2 seconds, for a large survey with 100+ questions this is not reasonable for the users....

Is this common performance or is there anything I can do to determine where the performance hit is and what to do about it?